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...apartment-house garage on Paris' Avenue Foch, scarcely noticing the motorbike ahead of him or the blue van behind. He slowed to ease around another van that was double parked. The cyclist then stopped, hopped off his bike and walked back waving a pistol. Men sprang from the parked van and pulled Denis from the car. The last thing the chauffeur saw was the Peugeot moving off with his boss in the back, imprisoned by men on either side...
...empire declined. Sir Joe was sold and Sir Julius the Doctor left too. Even Sir Clyde, whom the scribes had to leave and go to Cleveland. There also sprang up in the land of Jersey a new castle to which the football Giants and the basketball Nets moved. (But perhaps the loss of the Giants was not mourned, for no one liked the owner, cheap King Mara. Besides, the Giants never won anything--they just gave away all the good players...
...charges and the new contract still unsigned, it became evident that the real question was far more basic than mere personalities: Given Harvard's firm commitment to a force organized along modern, scientific lines, could the University ever reach agreement with a union committed to traditional labor practices that sprang up decades ago? Would one side have to give...
...rated movies, porn shops and other facets of the skin trade-in hopes of being able to contain them. But over the past year, violence has followed the vice: a Harvard football player was fatally stabbed, an exotic dancer was strangled, and a brisk trade in guns sprang up. Looking for ways to curb the rough stuff without closing the zone down, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) has devised a strategy based on a reversal of Gresham's law: a theory that good will drive out bad. The planners have announced a ten-year building program designed to ring...
...Israeli tank called the Merkava (chariot) and to supply Israel with 18 attack helicopters and an undetermined number of F-16 fighters. As proof that the country was prepared to do a bit of belt tightening before making new requests, Begin's government last week sprang an unpleasant surprise on Israeli consumers. Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich announced wide-ranging anti-inflation measures to reduce a $130 million budget deficit. By cutting subsidies on basic commodities, the government forced a 25% rise in the price of such staples as bread, cheese, milk and chicken; gasoline rose from...